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On this page you will find - pictures taken at the Mueller Canada Plant in Milton Ontario - a list of fire hydrant manufacturers, past and present, that directly or indirectly make hydrants, as found in Burlington. Many of the manufacturers listed are no longer in business, have sold their hydrant divisions, merged with others, or changed names.

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Mueller Canada. Milton Ontario

Picture 1. Ready for shipping; Century hydrants. Two hose nozzles and one 100 mm Storz pumper outlet..

Picture 2. Ready for shipping; Century hydrants. Two hose nozzles and one 100 mm Storz pumper outlet.

Picture 3. Monitor Hydrants. Flanged elbow will facilitate monitor nozzle.

Picture 4. Century barrels ready for assembly.

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The London Foundry Co., Ltd., London Ont.

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McWane Clow Canada	Radnor Foundry Canron Inc. Canada Pipe Bibby Ste-Croix		McAvity Crane Canada		Daigle & Freres Daigle Aqua Inc. Concord Supply		Darling Dominion Steel Canada Valve & Hydrant Philip Gies Foundry Darling Valve & Mfg. Co Canada Valve Inc. Meuller Canada
1871. McWane, Inc. traces its origins to a mill in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where James McWane was a mill worker. His grandsons Henry and Jim helped organize the Lynchburg Plow Works in 1896.	1854.	Radnor Foundry of Trois Rivieres, QE Canron Inc's traces back to this foundry	1834	Founding of Thomas McAvity & Company. St. Johns, NB	1960's	Daigle& Freres or Daigle Aqua started making hydrants. 1980's ceased operations	1888	Founding of the Darling Pump and Mfg. Co. in Williamsport PA. 1902. First hydrants made
	1960's	Stanton Pipe Ltd. name changed to Canada Pipe	1960	McAvity & Sons Ltd. sold to Crane Canada Ltd.	1980's	Concord Supply was incorporated and acquired hydranr assets of Daigle Aqua	1920	Dominion Steel Products Company, Brantford ON produces Darling hydrants for Canadian market 1923: DS out of business
	1985	Canron Inc. acquires Canada Pipe of Hamilton ON					1923	Canada Valve & Hydrant acquires production rights to the Darling hydrants
1989		McWane aquires Canron Pipe and Canada Pipe					1950	Philip Gies Foundry purchases the Canada Valve & Hydrant Company
1990 Clow Canada McWane establishes Clow Canada through amalgamating acquisitions that included T. McAvity & Sons, Ltd. (previously a division of Crane) and Concord Daigle. The manufacturing operations in Canada were consolidated in a plant in St. Johns, NB 1997. Clow Canada adds Bibby hydrants to its product line			1990	Crane Canada sells McAvidy division to Clow Canada	1990	Concord- Daigle sells assets to McWane. Hydrants are now made in St. Johns NB	1956	Darling valve and Mfg. Co acquires Philip Gies Foundry and Canada Valve & Hydrant 1966. Production moved from Brantford ON to Kitchener ON
	1997	Canada Pipe acquires * Bibby Ste-Croix Foundries (1840) and acquired the Sentinel hydrant line * Bibby Waterworks, Hamilton ON * Bibby Foundry, Oakville ON as well as 5 other foundries					1967	Philip Gies Foundry Limited and the Canada Valve & Hydrant Company merged into Canada Valve Limited 1978. Canada Valve Foundry was closed
							1980	Canada Valve Limited changed to Canada Valve Inc. Plants in Brantford and Milton ON
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							1912	Mueller Co. sets up shop in Sarnia Canada. Starting under the name of H. Meuller Mfg. Co. Ltd., the name was changed to Mueller Limited
1985	Mueller Limited acquires Canada Valve and the two companies were restructured, becoming Mueller Canada Inc. and Canada Valve. The Canada Valve operations split with the distribution marketing group remaining as Canada Valve and the manufacturing facility at Milton, Ontario becoming part of Mueller Canada Inc. The original Darling design hydrants are still produced by Mueller Canada.
	Link to the past. This logo is a "C" and a "V". It stands for "Canada Valve" and is on the Darling models of the mid 1980's and the Century model hydrant manufactured by the Meuller Group.

 

 

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The London Foundry Co., Ltd., London Ont.
1880	The London Foundry was located on King Street at the river in downtown London from about 1880 to about 1930. It produced a wide range of castings as shown on this trade card. By 1909, or earlier, fire hydrants were added to the line of products.

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Manufactured by the London Foundry Ltd. London Ont.		Willis Chapman Engineer 1909
This 1909 hydrant made by The London Foundry was one of the first hydrants installed in Burlington